Paradigm Quotes

• Though the world does not change with a change of paradigm, the scientist afterward works in a different world... I am convinced that we must learn to make sense of statements that at least resemble these. What occurs during a scientific revolution is not fully reducible to a re-interpretation of individual and stable data. In the first place, the data are not unequivocally stable.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Science, Data, Understanding

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.121, University of Chicago Press

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• The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way.

  Richard Stallman

  Running, Jobs, Race

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.32, Lulu.com

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• Beyond the Catholic exclusionary paradigm is a larger one which is the Christian one. Christians claim that if you don't believe in Christ, you can't get to heaven. Well that eliminates two thirds of the world's population!

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Christian, Believe, Two

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• We need to shift the paradigm from reactive technologies to more integrative solutions that deal with the variety and complexity of the threats that are out there today.

  John W. Thompson

  Technology, Needs, Today

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and closer to the truth... The developmental process described in this essay has been a process of evolution from primitive beginnings-a process whose successive stages are characterized by an increasingly detailed and refined understanding of nature. But nothing that has been or will be said makes it a process of evolution toward anything.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Nature, Science, Understanding

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• More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow.

  Stephen Covey

  Attitude, Flow, Essentials

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.494, Mango Media Inc.

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• When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Jobs, Turns, You Choose

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• What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die.

  Deepak Chopra

  Way, Mysterious, Consciousness

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• At the core, there is one simple, overarching reason why so many people remain unsatisfied in their work and why most organisations fail to draw out the greatest talent, ingenuity, and creativity of their people and never become truly great, enduring organisations. It stems from an incomplete paradigm of who we are - our fundamental view of human nature. The fundamental reality is, human beings are not things needing to be motivated and controlled; they are four-dimensional - body, mind, heart, and spirit.

  Stephen Covey

  Heart, Creativity, Simple

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• If we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work on our basic paradigms.

  Stephen Covey

  Attitude, Focus, Want

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• In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Struggle, Order, Trying

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• I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Support, Language, Programming

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.

  Stephen Covey

  Freedom, Independent, Giving

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• Again, your challenge is not just to improve. It is to break the service paradigm in your industry or market so that customers aren't just satisfied, they're so shocked that they tell strangers on the street how good you are.

  Jack Welch

  Challenges, Stranger, Break

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• The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.

  Geoffrey West

  Powerful, Data, Physics

  "The City in Numbers: an Equation That Explains Urban Life". wired.co.uk, March 29, 2011.

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• You have to choose love ... in the most difficult of time to shift the paradigm to that which is love.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspiring, Difficult

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• If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Failure, Lessons To Be Learned, Doe

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• To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.

  Paul Johnson

  August, Hell

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• Question Your Paradigms, your perceptions of reality.

  Daniel N. Robinson

  Reality, Perception, Perception Reality

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• The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process.

  Bruce Perens

  Marketing, Source, Process

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• A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

  Max Planck

  Death, Truth, Growing Up

  Scientific Autobiography, and Other Papers "Scientific Autobiography" (1948) (translation by Frank Gaynor)

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• Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Motivational

  "Science, Philosophy, and Religion" (1940).

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• digital hub (center of our universe) is moving from PC to cloud - PC now just another client alongside iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, ... - Apple is in danger of hanging on to old paradigm too long (innovator's dilemma) - Google and Microsoft are further along on the technology, but haven't quite figured it out yet - tie all of our products together, so we further lock customers into our ecosystem

  Steve Jobs

  Moving, Technology, Clouds

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• Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Men, Lenses, Scientist

  Thomas S. Kuhn (1970). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”

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• The paradigm helps a person identify the thought system, which is almost always false, that is behind the rationale for the continuation of excuses. It helps them really look at excuses from an objective point of view and realize that everything they've been thinking is just as likely to be not true as it is to be true.

  Wayne Dyer

  Thinking, Views, Looks

  Interview with Ellen Mahoney, www.drwaynedyer.com. September 2009.

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